I keep coming across references to something called Project Gutenberg
on this list and others, all of which are signed by someone called
Michael Hart. Has any other Humanist any experience of this Project?
More specifically, has anyone ever seen anything produced by this
Project?

Has anyone used either SuperCard or Plus, the two HyperCard-
like Macintosh programs. Can you tell me how you like each one,
what advantages do they have over HyperCard? Any disadvantages,
other than cost? I plan to continue developing natural language teaching
stacks, including digitized sounds.

I am looking for a Lettrix font for Greek with the accents and breathing
marks superimposed on the letters which receive them. I would also
like to know if anyone can tell me how to backspace accents, Hebrew vowels
etc. onto characters using a dotmatrix printer without having character spaces
deducted from the right margin. I am interested in producing text in which
the primary language is Hebrew (vowel points not necessary but would be useful
if possible), with English and full international character set, and Greek with
accents. For the moment I am using the Israeli version of NotaBene with an FX-
compatible (actually a Panasonic knockoff) dotmatrix printer. I would be
grateful to hear from anyone who has worked on producing similar types of text
using Lettrix or similar printer programs.

Greetings from Tuebingen:
A graduate student in my department is planning to write a dissertation on (man
ifestations, the image of, the role of) computers in American literature, film
and art. This appears to be a topic about which not much has been done so far (
?), so I would appreciate any kind of information bearing on this topic. I woul
d be particularly interested in basic information like bibliographies, related
research, critiques of computers in American literature, etc. Since we've only
started thinking about the topic, we'd also be grateful for leads on references
to computers in primary sources (novels, short stories, films, visual arts, et
c.) If anybody knows about dissertations already in progress on the general sub
ject, please let me know about them. Thank you for your help.
Hans Borchers
University of Tuebingen
Dept. of American Studies
Wilhelmstr. 50
7400 Tuebingen
Fed. Rep. of Germany
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Date: 5 April 90, 09:47:01 EDT
From: ANDREWO at UTOREPAS
Subject: Desktop publishing - Ventura Publisher

As an experienced user of Ventura Publisher I am, in general terms, an
admiring proponent of this programme whose versatility and overall
quality never cease to amaze me. There is, however, a major bug which is
a particular irritant to academic users: it concerns automatic
footnoting. As currently implemented the programme will not allow
footnotes to occupy more than half a page, will not carry the overspill
to the next page and, moreover, where there are extensive footnotes on
one page will "remember" space allocation for these footnotes on
subsequent pages even if there are no footnotes! This results, as one
may imagnine, in an unholy mess. Furthermore, the indexing feature of
the programme will not take account of information to be found in
footnotes entered with the automatic footnoting feature. Again, a severe
limitation for academic users. It is possible manually to create
footnotes of any size the information to be found in which will be
recognized by the indexer! And the programme performs very well in this
mode. It is, however, untidy as a procedure and quite time consuming.
Despite constant phone calls to Xerox (which has been aware of the bug
for a very long time) I have been unable to secure an assurance that the
bug has been/is being fixed. Does anyone have better information than
mine, or know someone who has produced a "fix". Many thanks. Andrew
Oliver
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 90 10:39:00 PLT
From: "Guy L. Pace" <PACE@WSUVM1>
Subject: Info on American College of Montpellier

Dr. Don Stem, acting chair of our marketing dept., is trying to contact
Dr. Drew Hageman at the American College of Montpellier located in
Montpellier, France. It may be a branch of the American College of
Switzerland. If anyone has any information (bitnet ID, phone #,
address) please respond as soon as possible. I will get this to
Dr. Stem right away. Thanks.